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From the Berlin journal

Title
From the Berlin journal / Max Frisch ; edited by Thomas Strässle ; with the cooperation of Margit Unser ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
Author
Frisch, Max, 1911-1991
Publication
  • London : Seagull Books, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Strässle, Thomas, 1972-
  • Unser, Margit
  • Hoban, Wieland
Description
220 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Max Frisch (1911-91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in an interview that this was by no means a "scribbling book," but rather a book "fully composed." The journal is one of the great treasures of Frisch's literary estate, but the author imposed a retention period of twenty years from the date of his death because of the "private things" he noted in it. This work now marks the first publication of excerpts from Frisch's journal. Here, the unmistakable Frisch is back, full of doubt, with no illusions, and with a playfully sharp eye for the world. This work pulls from the years 1946-49 and 1966-71. Observations about the writer's everyday life stand alongside narrative and essayistic texts, as well as finely-drawn portraits of colleagues like Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Wolf Biermann, and Christa Wolf, among others. Its foremost quality, though, is the extraordinary acuity with which Frisch observed political and social conditions in East Germany while living in West Berlin.
Series Statement
The Swiss list
Uniform Title
  • Diaries. Selections. English
  • Swiss list.
Alternative Title
Diaries.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the German.
Contents
From notebook 1 (1973) -- From notebook 2 (1973-74) -- Notes -- Afterword / Thomas Strässle.
Call Number
JFD 17-4523
ISBN
  • 9780857424334
  • 0857424335
OCLC
958798709
Author
Frisch, Max, 1911-1991, author.
Title
From the Berlin journal / Max Frisch ; edited by Thomas Strässle ; with the cooperation of Margit Unser ; translated by Wieland Hoban.
Publisher
London : Seagull Books, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Swiss list
Swiss list.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Translated from the German.
Added Author
Strässle, Thomas, 1972- editor, writer of afterword.
Unser, Margit, editor.
Hoban, Wieland, translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 17-4523
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